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ZIONISM  AND  PATRIOTISM 


BY 

LOUIS  D.  BRANDEIS,  Esq. 


1918 

PUBLISHED  BY  THE 

Federation  of  American  Zionists 

44  East  23d  Street 
New  York 


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ZIONISM  AND  PATRIOTISM. 


During  most  of  my  life  my  contact  with  Jews  and  Judaism  was 
slight,  and  I  gave  little  thought  to  their  problems  save  by  asking 
myself  from  time  to  time  whether  we  were  showing  by  our  lives 
due  appreciation  of  the  opportunities  which  this  hospitable  country 
affords.  My  approach  to  Zionism  was  through  Americanism.  Practi¬ 
cal  experience  and  observation  convinced  me  that  to  be  good  Ameri¬ 
cans,  we  must  be  better  Jews,  and  to  be  better  Jews  we  must  be 
Zionists. 

Lest  there  be  misunderstanding,  let  me  state  at  the  outset  what 
Zionism  is  and  what  it  is  not. 

It  is  not  a  movement  to  remove  all  the  Jews  of  the  world 
compulsorily  to  Palestine.  In  the  first  place  there  are  14,000,000 
Jews,  and  Palestine  would  not  accommodate  more  than  one-fifth 
of  that  number.  In  the  second  place,  it  is  not  a  movement  to  compel 
anyone  to  go  to  Palestine.  It  is  essentially  a  movement  to  give  to 
the  Jew  more,  not  less  freedom,— it  aims  to  enable  the  Jews  to 
exercise  the  same  right  now  exercised  by  practically  every  other  peo¬ 
ple  in  the  world :  to  live  at  their  option  either  in  the  land  of  their 
fathers  or  in  some  other  country ;  a  right  which  members  of  small 
nations  as  well  as  of  large, — which  Irish,  Greek,  Bulgarian,  Servian, 
or  Belgian,  may  now  exercise  as  fully  as  Germans  or  English. 

Furthermore,  Zionism  is  not  a  movement  to  wrest  from  the 
Ottoman  the  sovereignity  of  Palestine.  Palestine  merely  seeks  to 
establish  in  Palestine,  as  part  of  the  Turkish  Empire,  for  such  Jews 
as  choose  to  go  and  remain  there,  and  for  their  descendants,  a  legally 
secured  home,  where  they  may  live  together  and  lead  a  Jewish  life; 
where  they  may  expect  ultimately  to  constitute  a  majority  of  the 
population,  and  may  look  forward  to  what  we  should  call  home  rule. 

Since  the  destruction  of  the  Temple,  nearly  two  thousand  years 
ago,  the  longing  for  Palestine  has  been  ever  present  with  the  Jew. 
It  was  the  hope  of  a  return  to  the  land  of  his  fathers  that  buoyed 
up  the  Jew  amidst  persecution,  and  for  the  realization  of  which  the 
devout  ever  prayed.  Until  a  generation  ago  this  was  a  hope  merely — 
a  wish  piously  prayed  for  but  not  worked  for.  The  Zionist  movement 
is  idealistic,  but  essentially  practical.  It  seeks  to  realize  that  hope; 
to  make  the  dream  of  a  Jewish  life  in  a  Jewish  land  come  true  as 
other  great  dreams  of  the  world  have  been  realized — by  men  working 
with  devotion,  intelligence,  and  self-sacrifice.  It  was  thus  the  dream 
of  Italian  independence  and  unity,  after  centuries  of  vain  hope,  came 
true  through  the  efforts  of  Mazzini,  Garibaldi  and  Cavour;  that  the 
dream  of  home  rule  in  Ireland  has  just  been  realized;  that  the  dream 
of  Greek,  of  Bulgarian  and  of  Servian  independence  became  facts. 

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The  rebirth  of  the  Jewish  nation  is  no  longer  a  mere  dream. 
It  is  in  process  of  accomplishment  in  a  most  practical  way;  and  the 
story  is  a  most  wonderful  one.  A  generation  ago  a  few  Jewish  emi¬ 
grants  from  Russia  and  from  Roumania,  instead  of  proceeding  West¬ 
ward  to  this  hospitable  country  where  they  might  easily  have  secured 
material  prosperity,  turned  Eastward  for  the  purpose  of  settling  in 
the  land  of  their  fathers.  They  came  from  countries  where  the  Jews 
were  persecuted  and  subjected  to  the  gravest  injustice;  but  the  desire 
to  avoid  persecution  and  injustice  was  not  the  main  cause  of  their 
settling  in  Palestine.  Some  of  them  were  devoutely  orthodox ;  but 
religious  devotion  was  not  the  main  cause  of  their  settling  in  Palestine. 
They  went  to  Palestine  because  they  were  convinced  that  the  undying 
longing  of  Jews  for  Palestine  was  a  fact  of  deepest  significance;  that 
it  was  a  manifestation  in  the  struggle  for  existence  by  an  ancient 
people  which  had  established  its  right  to  live — a  people  whose  three 
thousand  years  of  civilization  had  produced  a  faith,  culture,  and  in¬ 
dividuality  which  enable  them  to  contribute  largely  in  the  future,  as 
they  had  in  the  past,  to  the  advance  of  civilization ;  and  that  it  was 
not  a  right  view,  that  it  was  not  a  right  merely,  but  a  duty  of  the 
Jewish  nation  to  survive  and  develop. 

These  new  Pilgrim  Fathers  sought,  therefore,  to  restore  in  the 
land  of  their  fathers  the  Jewish  national  life.  They  believed  that 
there  only  could  Jewish  life  to  be  protected  from  the  forces  of  dis¬ 
integration;  that  there  alone  could  the  Jewish  spirit  reach  its  full 
and  natural  development;  and  that  by  securing  for  those  Jews  who 
wished  to  settle  in  Palestine  the  opportunity  to  do  so,  not  only  those 
Jews,  but  all  other  Jews  would  be  benefited  and  that  the  long  perplex¬ 
ing  Jewish  problem  would  at  last,  find  solution. 

To  the  worldly  wise  these  efforts  at  colonization  appeared  very 
foolish.  Nature  and  man  presented  obstacles  in  Palestine  which  ap¬ 
peared  to  them  insuperable;  the  colonists  were  in  fact  ill-equipped 
for  their  task,  save  in  their  spirit  of  devotion  and  self-sacrifice.  The 
land,  harassed  by  centuries  of  misrule,  was  treeless  and  apparently 
sterile;  and  it  was  infested  with  malaria.  The  Government  ofliered 
them  no  security,  either  as  to  life  or  property.  The  colonists  them¬ 
selves  were  not  only  unfamiliar  with  the  character  of  the  country, 
but  were  ignorant  of  the  farmer’s  life  which  they  proposed  to  lead; 
for  the  Jews  of  Russia  and  Roumania  had  been  generally  denied  the 
opportunity  of  owning  or  working  land.  Furthermore,  these  colonists 
were  not  inured  to  the  physical  hardships  to  which  the  life  of  a 
pioneer  is  necessarily  subjected.  To  these  hardships  and  to  malaria 
the  men  succumbed.  Those  who  survived  were  long  confronted  with 
failure.  But  at  last  success  came.  Within  a  generation  these  Jewish 
Pilgrim  Fathers,  and  those  who  followed  them,  had  succeeded  in 
establishing  these  two  fundamental  propositions: 

First. — That  Palestine  is  fit  for  the  modern  Jew. 

Second. — That  the  modern  Jew  is  fit  for  Palestine. 


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This  land,  then  treeless  and  supposed  to  be  sterile  and  hope¬ 
lessly  arid,  has  been  shown  to  have  been  treeless  and  sterile  only  be¬ 
cause  of  man’s  misrule.  It  has  been  shown  to  be  capable  of  becoming 
again  a  land  “flowing  with  milk  and  honey.”  Oranges  and  grapes, 
olives  and  almonds,  wheat  and  other  cereals  are  now  growing  there  in 
profusion.  Those  who  undertake  to  describe  Palestine  are  apt  to 
speak  of  it  as  a  miniature  California,  in  its  climate,  its  topography  and 
its  agricultural  possibilities.  Others  have  compared  it  with  Sicily — • 
long  the  granary  of  Rome. 

Much  patience  and  perseverance  and  faith  have  been  recpiired 
to  develop  these  possibilities  in  Palestine ;  and  very  much  remains  to 
be  done  to  make  the  life  of  the  Jewish  settler  what  it  should  be.  But 
the  commercial  test  has  been  made.  The  progress  is  obvious  to  every 
traveller ;  and  it  may  already  be  measured  in  statistics.  In  a  single 
generation  the  export  of  oranges  increased  from  60,000  boxes  to 
1,500,000  and  in  recent  years  the  groves  have  been  so  largely  extended 
that  exports  to  twice  this  amount  are  expected  within  a  few  years 
when  these  trees  shall  begin  to  bear  fruit.  The  grape,  the  almond 
and  the  olive  culture  have  prospered  likewise,  and  there  are  important 
exports  of  wheat  and  other  cereals. 

This  material  development  has  been  attended  by  a  spiritual  and 
social  development  no  less  extraordinary;  a  development  in  education, 
in  health  and  in  social  order ;  and  in  the  character  and  habits  of  the 
population.  Perhaps  the  most  extraordinary  achievement  of  Jewish 
nationalism  is  the  revival  of  the  Hebrew  Language,  which  has  again 
become  a  language  of  the  common  intercourse  of  men.  The  Hebrew 
tongue,  called  a  dead  language  for  nearly  two  thousand  years,  has, 
in  the  Jewish  colonies  and  in  Jerusalem,  become  again  the  living 
mother-tongue.  The  effect  of  this  common  language  in  unifying  the 
Jews  is,  of  course,  great;  for  the  Jews  of  Palestine  came  literally 
from  all  the  lands  of  the  earth,  each  speaking,  except  for  the  use  of 
Yiddish^  the  language  of  the  country  from  which  he  came,  and  re¬ 
maining,  in  the  main,  almost  a  stranger  to  the  others. 

But  the  effect  of  the  renaissance  of  the  Plebrew  tongue  is  far 
greater  than  that  of  unifying  the  Jews.  It  is  a  potent  factor  in  re¬ 
viving  the  essentially  Jewish  spirit.  It  was  a  bold  dream  to  plan  the 
foundation  of  a  new  Jewish  nation  in  Palestine  by  giving  a  common 
language  to  the  natives  of  so  many  lands,  particularly  so  when  it  is 
remembered  that  the  language,  long  called  dCad,  had  not  only  to  be 
introduced,  but  to  be  adapted  to  modern  use.  Yet  this  has  actually 
been  accomplished  in  a  single  generation ;  and  the  man  who  took  the 
first  practical  step,  Eliezer  Ben  Jehuda — is  still  in  Jerusalem,  engaged 
in  furthering  the  work. 

Ben  Jehuda’s  story  will  have  a  place  in  history.  In  1880,  living 
comfortably  in  Paris,  he  wrote  an  article  for  a  Jerusalem  paper, 
demanding  that  Plebrew  become  the  language  of  intercourse  in  the 
Talmud  Torahs  and  Yeshibahs  of  Palestine.  The  editor  of  the  paper 
in  which  the  article  was  published  spoke  of  the  propositions  as  “a 
pious  wish;”  but  Ben  Jehuda  was  not  content  that  it  should  remain  a 


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wish.  He  proposed  that  the  wish  become  a  fact,  so  he  went  to  Pales¬ 
tine  himself.  He  concluded  that  if  Hebrew  was  to  become  a  spoken 
language,  the  way  to  begin  with  Hebrew,  as  with  charity,  was  at  home. 
He  said  he  would  marry  no  woman  who  did  not  speak  Hebrew 
fluently.  Fortunately,  he  found  one  who  could;  and  Hebrew  became 
the  language  of  his  own  household.  Then  he  declared  that  he  would 
deal  only  with  those  who  could  speak  Hebrew.  He  was  naturallv 
regarded  as  half-crazy.  But  soon  others  followed  his  example! 

And  before  a  generation  had  passed,  Hebrew  became  the  language 
of  kindergartens,  of  primary  schools  and  of  higher  institutions  of 
learning.  Daily  papers  and  magazines  are  now  published,  public 
lectures  are  delivered  and  plays  performed  in  Hebrew.  Many  were 
the  parents  who  learned  Hebrew  from  their  children!  and  there  are 
instances  also  of  non-Jews  learning  Hebrew  in  order  to  avail  them¬ 
selves  of  the  advantages  offered  by  the  Hebrew  educational  and 
cultural  institutions. 

It  was  no  ordinary  sense  of  piety  that  made  Ben  Jehuda  seek 
to  introduce  the  Hebrew  language.  He  recognized  what  the  leaders 
of  other  peoples,  seeking  re-birth  and  independence,  have  recognized : 
that  it  is  through  the  national  language  expressing  the  people’s  soul 
that  the  national  spirit  is  aroused  and  the  national  power  restored. 
In  spite  of  the  prevalence  of  the  English  tongue  in  Ireland,  the  revival 
of  Gaelic  was  one  of  the  most  important  factors  in  the  movement 
which  has  just  resulted  in  securing  for  the  Irish  their  long-coveted 
home  rule.  The  revival  of  Flemish  was  a  potent  factor  in  the  re-birth 
of  the  Belgian  people,  who  have  now  given  such  good  account  of  them¬ 
selves.  And  so  it  was  with  the  revival  of  Greek,  of  Bulgarian  and 
of  Servian. 

The  intensity  of  conviction  and  the  devotion  which  the  revival 
of  Hebrew  has  developed  was  shown  in  the  struggle  for  its  mainte¬ 
nance  last  year  (1914)  in  the  Palestinian  schools.  Believing  that  an 
effort  was  being  made  to  supersede  it  in  some  of  the  schools,  practical¬ 
ly  every  teacher — two  hundred  in  all — struck,  giving  up  their  only 
means  of  livelihood  rather  than  submit  to  the  impairment  of  the  posi¬ 
tion  of  the  Hebrew  language.  Pupils  followed  teachers,  and  parents 
aided  by  others  in  the  community  willingly  faced,  despite  their  poverty, 
the  burden  of  establishing  new  national  schools,  so  that  their  new-old 
national  language  might  predominate.  This  is  stuff  out  of  which 
nations  can  be  built! 

The  burden  has  fallen  upon  America  to  maintain  the  Zionist 
movement,  now  so  promising  after  years  of  travail.  1  he  organiza¬ 
tion  which  has  hitherto  directed  the  movement  had  its  headquarters 
in  Berlin.  The  governing  committee  is  composed  mainly  of  citizens 
of  the  different  nations  now  at  war  with  one  another.  Some  of  the 
members  are  from  Russia,  some  from  Germany,  some  from  Austria. 
The  president  of  the  Zionist  congress  was  a  German  ;  and  the  leading 
financial  institutions  through  which  the  business  of  the  organization 
was  conducted,  were  organized  under  British  law.  d  he  war  has  scat¬ 
tered  these  officers  under  conditions  which  prevent  their  cooperating 


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or,  indeed,  communicating  freely  with  one  another;  and  which  pre¬ 
vents  them  from  directing  affairs  in  Palestine.  The  establishment 
in  a  neutral  country  of  a  provisional  committee  to  take  up  the 
work  thus  became  necessary;  and  such  a  committee  was  naturally 
established  in  America,  the  only  neutral  country  which  has  a  large 
Jewish  population,  and  where  more  than  one-fifth  of  all  the  Jews 
in  the  world  live.  The  committee  so  formed  has  at  the  outset  the 
task  of  providing  funds  necessary  for  maintaining  the  Zionist  organi¬ 
zation  and  institutions. 

Hitherto  ninety  percent  of  all  the  money  required  for  this  pur¬ 
pose  was  raised  in  Europe.  The  European  Jews  are  now  prevented 
from  contributing  practically  anything.  Upon  us  falls  the  obligation 
and  the  privilege  of  providing  the  needed  funds.  When  we  consider 
how  large  and  generous  has  been  the  contribution  of  the  Irish  in 
America  for  the  cause  of  home  rule — the  present  demand  upon  the 
Jews  for  this  purpose  seems  very  small  indeed. 

The  Jews  in  America  can  be  relied  upon  to  perform  fully  their 
obligation.  And  there  are  special  reasons  why  we  should  be  eager 
to  do  so;  for  Palestine  gives  promise  of  doing  for  us  far  more  than 
we  can  ever  be  called  upon  to  do  for  Palestine;  for  the  Jewish  renais¬ 
sance  in  Palestine  will  enable  us  to  perform  our  plain  duty  to  America. 
It  will  help  us  to  make  toward  the  attainment  of  the  American  ideals 
of  democracy  and  social  justice  that  large  contribution  for  which 
religion  and  life  have  peculiarly  fitted  the  Jew. 

America’s  fundamental  law  seeks  to  make  real  the  brotherhood 
of  man.  That  brotherhood  became  the  Jewish  fundamental  law  more 
than  twenty-five  hundred  years  ago.  America’s  insistent  demand  in 
the  twentieth  century  is  for  social  justice.  That  also  has  been  the 
Jews’  striving  for  ages.  Their  affliction  as  well  as  their  religion  has 
prepared  the  Jews  for  effective  democracy.  Persecution  broadened 
their  sympathies  ;  it  trained  them  in  patient  endurance,  in  self-control, 
and  in  sacrifice.  It  made  them  think  as  well  as  sufifer.  It  deepened 
the  passion  for  righteousness. 

The  Jewish  spirit,  the  product  of  their  religion  and  experiences, 
is  essentially  modern  and  essentially  American.  Not  since  the  des¬ 
truction  of  the  Temple  have  the  Jews  in  spirit  and  in  ideals  been,  in 
these  respects,  so  fully  in  harmony  with  the  noblest  aspirations  of  the 
country  in  which  they  lived.  The  Jewish  spirit,  so  long  preserved, 
the  character  developed  by  so  many  centuries  of  sacrifice,  should  be 
preserved  and  developed  further,  so  that  in  America  as  elsewhere 
the  sons  of  the  race  may  in  future  live  lives  and  do  deeds  worthy  of 
their  ancestors. 

But  as  the  Ghetto  walls  are  falling  Jewish  life  cannot  be  pre¬ 
served  and  developed,  assimilation  cannot  be  averted,  unless  there  l)e 
re-established  in  the  fatherland  a  centre,  from  which  the  Jewish  spirit 
may  radiate,  and  give  to  the  Jews  scattered  throughout  the  world  that 
inspiration  which  springs  from  memories  of  a  great  past  and  the  hope 
of  a  great  future.  To  accomj^lish  this,  it  is  not  necessary  tliat  the 
lewisii  population  of  Palestine  be  large  as  comj)ared  with  the  whole 

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number  of  Jews  in  the  world.  Throughout  centuries  when  the  Jewish 
inlluence  was  greatest,  during  the  Persian,  the  Greek,  and  the  Roman 
Empires,  only  a  relatively  small  part  of  the  Jews  lived  in  Palestine; 
and  only  a  small  part  of  the  Jews  returned  from  Babylon  when  the 
Temple  was  rebuilt. 

But  we  have  also  an  immediate  and  more  pressing  duty  in  the 
performance  of  which  Zionism  alone  seems  capable  of  affording  effect¬ 
ive  aid.  We  must  protect  America  and  ourselves  from  demoralisation 
which  has  to  some  extent  already  set  in  among  American  Jews. 
Throughout  all  the  years  of  persecution  the  general  standard  of  morals 
was  exceptionally  high  among  the  Jews.  The  Jewish  criminal  was 
very  rare;  for  with  the  Jews  laws  were  self-enforced  and  each 
individual  was  his  own  policeman.  The  Rosenthal  case  with  its 
horrible  revelations  of  violence  and  corruption,  and  the  white  slave 
persecutions,  with  their  disclosures  of  prostitution  among  Jewish 
women,  brought  to  the  American  Jew  a  deep  sense  of  humiliation, 
and  to  the  thoughtful  grave  concern.  What  could  be  more  remote 
from  Jewish  tradition  than  such  resorts  to  violence,  unless  it  be  the 
prevalence  of  unchastity? 

The  cause  of  this  demoralisation  is  clear.  It  results  in  large  part 
from  the  fact  that  in  our  land  of  liberty  all  the  restraints  of  liberty 
and  of  law  by  which  the  Jews  were  protected  in  their  Ghettos,  had  been 
removed  and  a  new  generation  was  left  without  necessary  moral  and 
spiritual  support.  And  is  it  not  equally  clear  what  the  only  possible 
remedy  is?  It  is  the  laborious  task  of  inculcating  self-respect, — a 
task  which  can  be  accomplished  only  by  restoring  the  ties  of  the  Jew 
to  the  noble  past  of  his  race,  and  by  making  him  realize  the  possibili¬ 
ties  of  a  no  less  glorious  future.  The  only  bulwark  against  demoralisa¬ 
tion  is  to  develop  in  each  new  generation  of  Jews  in  America  the 
sense  of  “Noblesse  oblige.”  That  spirit  can  be  developed  only  with 
those  who  regard  their  race  as  destined  to  live  and  to  live  with  a  bright 
future.  That  spirit  can  best  be  developed  by  actively  participating 
in  some  way  in  furthering  the  ideals  of  the  Jewish  renaissance,  and 
this  can  be  done  effectively  only  through  furthering  the  Zionist  move¬ 
ment. 

In  the  Jewish  colonies  of  Palestine  there  are  no  Jewish  criminals; 
because  everyone,  old  and  young  alike,  is  led  to  feel  the  glory  of  his 
race  and  his  obligation  to  carry  forward  its  ideals.  The  new  Pales¬ 
tinian  Jewry  produces  instead  of  criminals,  great  scientists  like  Aaron 
.Aaronsohn,  the  discoverer  of  wild  wheat;  great  pedagogues  like  David 
Vellin  ;  craftsmen  like  Boris  Schatz.  the  founder  of  the  Bezalel ;  intre¬ 
pid  Shomerim,  the  Jewish  guards  of  peace,  who  stand  watch  in  the 
night  against  marauders  and  doers  of  violent  deeds. 

Every  Irish  American  who  contributed  towards  advancing  home 
rule  was  a  better  man  and  a  better  American  for  the  sacrifice  be  made. 
Every  American  Jew  who  aids  in  advancing  the  Jewish  settlement  in 
Palestine,  though  he  feel  tb.at  neither  he  nor  his  descendants  will  ever 
be  there,  will  likewise  be  a  better  man  and  a  better  American  for 
doing  so. 


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There  is  one  other  consideration  to  which  the  Jews  of  America 
should  give  thought.  Though  the  result  of  this  war  should  be  as  we 
hope,  the  removal  or  lessening  of  the  disabilities  under  which  the 
Jews  labour  in  Eastern  Europe,  nevertheless,  when  peace  comes, 
emigration  from  the  war-stricken  countries  will  certainly  proceed  in 
large  volume,  because  of  the  misery  incident  to  the  war's  devastation. 
More  than  one-half  of  the  Jews  of  the  whole  world  live  in  that  terri¬ 
tory  near  the  western  frontier  of  Russia,  which  has  become  one  of 
the  two  vast  battlefields  of  the  nations.  Is  it  desirable  that  America 
should  be  practically  the  only  country  to  which  the  Jews  of  Eastern 
Europe  may  emigrate?  Is  it  not  desirable  that  Palestine  should  give 
a  special  welcome  to  the  Jews,  as  the  Zionists  propose? 

I  am  impelled  all  the  more  to  ask  for  your  support,  both  moral 
and  financial,  because  at  this  critical  juncture  we  should  all  stand 
together,  so  that  when  the  occasion  arises,  we  may  be  of  lasting  service 
to  our  people.  Now  is  not  the  time  to  foreshadow  the  policy  which 
we  should  engage  upon.  But  when  the  nations  approach  peace,  the 
Jews  of  America,  if  united,  may  be  factors  in  obtaining  for  the  Jews 
of  the  other  parts  of  the  world  something  more  real  than  promises 
of  amelioration ;  something  more  lasting  than  philanthropy.  And 
this  greater  undertaking  depends  upon  the  readiness  with  which  you 
rally  in  every  possible  form  to  the  cause. 

Your  loyalty  to  America,  your  loyalty  to  Judaism,  should  lead 
you  to  support  the  Zionist  cause. 


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